Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A note about choosing the sample size is in order here although the decision about how large n should be is usually difficult . |
| 2 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 3 | Now they should be be perfectly plain , straight and we got a t I got a true cut on eighteen inches with a a Mr was so so he made a special report on erm what I 'd done . |
| 4 | The earlier version of English at Nottingham as " elegant dabbling in belles-lettres " stiffened by Anglo Saxon and philology , now made way for a more Leavisian model : " My conception of what a School of English should be was considerably clarified by my reading of Dr. Leavis " notable essay entitled " A Sketch for an English School " in his Education and the University . " |
| 5 | How precise an answer must be is up to the teams playing . |
| 6 | The first indication of how large or small the yield might be is when the first leaves and tendrils begin to appear , followed by embryo bunches of grapes . |
| 7 | I mean a hundred is probably big enough , twenty five might be is more or less big enough . |
| 8 | ‘ Where I 'll be is right here in Liskeard , for the most part seated at this very desk . ’ |
| 9 | It 'll be be much more straightforward when they 've got the whole thing on the computer but at the moment it 's a transitional phase . |
| 10 | An attempt to determine before operation whether peptic ulcer patients are at risk of developing postvagotomy symptoms seems laudable but in practice such clues as there may be are probably too subtle to identify with any confidence from a non-invasive gastric emptying test . |
| 11 | For example , a doctor may be able to see more patients each hour and he may be being more efficient by seeing more people in a fixed period of time . |
| 12 | It was generally assumed that they would probably prove to be complementary to each other , but what the optimum mix would be was far from clear . |
| 13 | There are different futures , there are alternative futures , and any deterministic view of what the future will be is clearly erm something which is wrong , in my view . |
| 14 | But when that will be is not known ; the Bolton Steam Locomotive Company has not set target dates . |
| 15 | And what that relationship will be is not securely indicated by any surface clues ( like grammatical morphology or the presence of a fixed word-pair ) . |
| 16 | Exactly how the latter will be is still a little bit hazy , according to Shlomo Harari , managing director of another of the six companies , Adacom WorkStation Interconnectivity Ltd or ASI . |
| 17 | This can , in fact , be the most productive teaching time , because the children will be involved in very real problems and their skills will be being rigorously tested . |
| 18 | It will be were n't it ? |
| 19 | Quite how useful a device like the Quad-FX can be is n't really obvious until you try one out . |